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...resignation letter, Galluccio—who is currently imprisoned in the Middlesex House of Correction—asked for the support of his fellow senators as he attempts to appeal Monday's sentence. The senator has publicly attributed the positive results of a series of breathalyzer tests to his toothpaste, and he continues to assert that he did not consume alcohol—despite Cambridge District Court Judge Matthew J. Nestor’s ruling to the contrary...
President Barack Obama has voiced his support for the plan, and a bill that would create such an agency is currently moving through Congress...
Next the question would be whether banning gay marriage achieves a legitimate government interest - and defenders of Prop 8 included more than a dozen such goals in a preview of their case filed last month. They argue that allowing same-sex marriage would weaken society and erode support for traditional marriage. They also say that it could lead to greater acceptability, and eventually legal recognition, of polygamy and marginalize the role of biological parents...
...Amsterdam and Heathrow in London, already offer passengers the option of walking through a body scanner instead of undergoing a physical pat-down search. But in 2008, when the European Commission suggested devising regulations on the use of scanners in the E.U., European Parliament members voted overwhelmingly in support of a resolution calling the machines an affront to passengers' rights. The Commission has since launched a study on whether the scanners violate people's privacy, but the results have yet to be released...
...Hogendoorn, a Nairobi-based Horn of Africa analyst for the International Crisis Group. "It has an international agenda in that it sees itself in part as relating to the larger Muslim population. So when they can get away with a high-profile attack that they think will generate support, I think they will do so. The question is whether they have the capacity to do so." (See pictures of Muslims in America...